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By Dr. Robin George Andrews  Series 9 of Doctor Who premieres on the 19th September with The Magician’s Apprentice. In the meantime, another (lesser known) doctor, Dr. Andrews, has been pondering on the power source of the TARDIS: the Eye of Harmony. That’s right: the man who stops the monsters is back, and he’s not alone. The Master – reincarnated as the phenomenally mischievous Missy – is somehow alive and kicking, and is teaming up with the intrepid, effervescent Clara to...

Sleaford Mods are scheduled to play at Banksy’s much talked about Dismaland this Friday, an event that frontman Jason Williamson has personally been looking forward to ahead of their Key Markets UK tour this month: "I got asked about 8 months ago if Sleaford fancied playing an art exhibition. I asked who's it was and got told whose it was and I thought yes, why not? I thought it was really good that we'd been asked. Why shouldn't I think...

Viet Cong, the Calgary-based quartet —recently short-listed for Canada’s' prestigious Polaris Music Prize,— have revealed their brand new video for “'Bunker Buster'”, directed by Yoonha Park. It's a heady mish-mash of twitchy-faced mannequins, smoking starlets and milky blood. Who are you to resist? If Viet Cong's “'Bunker Buster'” elicits the images of a nighttime urban hellscape littered with lost souls, it does so with its dissected, angular rhythms and existential lyrics. Taking these visual cues even further, director Yoonha Park gives the song a...

By Ben Gelblum (@BenGelblum) Hackney’s most exclusive riding club are EastHam-born DJ Jawa and This Ain’t Bristol’s globetrotting DJ and UK House producer Billy Kenny. Hackney Polo Club trotted out of Upper Clapton - Hackney’s Murder Mile - and into a banging residency at Shoreditch’s capital of fun The Book Club, with a stack of well-received releases, and a banging new “tech-house meets dancehall” EP, Babylon Must Fall out soon. Expect to hear a lot more from Hackney’s finest export....

Royal Berkshire tops England’s strip club and nightclub league tables, but you may be surprised where you'll find London on the list The royal county of Berkshire might be home to Windsor Castle but it’s also the county with the most strip clubs and nightclubs per capita in the whole of England. A comprehensive study of all 576 listed strip clubs in England found that Berkshire, with 17 strip clubs and a population of approximately 154,000 people, has way more...

By Eleanor Stammeijer (@ElStammjamm) Indie folk meets electronic, the ‘celestial pop’ or Farao’s Till It’s All Forgotten is a vocally hypnotic, texturally rich release. Helmed by Grammy Award Winner Andrew Scheps, known for his work with artists like Lana Del Ray and Hozier, Farao walks an airier and more other-worldly line, an essence that is laced throughout its tracks. There are moments in Till It’s All Forgotten that aim to disarm. Kari Jahnsen’s emotional vocals provide a counterpoint to the harsher...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) The lens through which FKA twigs gazes on the world is a twisted one. A collision of experimental noise and sugary melody, high fashion, body horror, contortion and mutated R&B; this is M3LL155X. The latest EP/video project from FKA twigs, M3LL155X arrives with the assured cool of an auteur secure in their vision. In many ways the EP is business as usual for twigs; electronic R&B distorted through a prism of progressive pop as lyrics drape over...

This week, Strictly Come Dancing's Jeremy Vine talks about his Strictly makeover, or Strictlification With its sequinned costumes, spray tans, top hats and sparkly shoes, the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing is renowned and loved for its dramatic makeovers and fairly tale costumes. Now, the Strictly contestant Jeremy Vine has revealed just what the process of ‘Strictlification’, as it is apparently named behind the scenes, involves. Writing on his official website http://jeremyvine.tv, the BBC Radio 2 presenter reveals that when he...

A gig photographer needs to be made of sturdy stuff. A dedicated tog must have the will to heft their gear on a nightly basis to the best (read: rowdiest) shows in town, risking lens and limb for the killer shot. All of the above – not a problem for Canterbury’s Rich Broome, a seasoned gig photographer who’s more than prepared for the rough-and-tumble of a hardcore club show. Having just completed a successful stint at this year’s Hevy Fest,...